EXILES: Shah's Flight

Once again, the deposed Shah of Iran was on the move. On Sunday, a
spokesman for Panama's air force said that Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60,
ailing from an enlarged spleen and a form of lymphatic cancer, had left
the country aboard a chartered DC-8. His destination: Cairo, where
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had made an open-ended offer of
sanctuary. The Shah's flight from Panama, his home in exile since
December, could create internal difficulties for Sadat, whose regime is
being criticized by Muslim zealots sympathetic to the Iranian
revolution. The departure would also complicate diplomatic efforts to
free...